@steve: "    "New Evidence: Terror Alerts Were Used As Electoral Weapons
    by Chris Bowers
    "Remember the chart that showed the relationship between Bush's approval
rating and terror alters? The chart clearly suggested that terror alerts
were used more frequently during times of unpopularity for Bush. Now, new
evidence, from Tom Ridge himself, suggests that there was indeed massive
outside pressure on the department on homeland to security to often raise
the terror alert despite flimsy evidence:
    "The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for
terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued
there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge
now says.
    "Ridge, who resigned Feb. 1, said Tuesday that he often disagreed with
administration officials who wanted to elevate the threat level to orange,
or 'high' risk of terrorist attack, but was overruled."
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Confirmation of what we suspected all along. More lies and propaganda from
the people who tell you can trust them. 
Clearly.....you can't. 
steve"
    @seattledemocracy: ""steve" <email_address> wrote in message 
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Ridge was on the Daily show recently denying the terror alerts had any 
political component to them, so I wouldn't start dancing around on this one.
-Jeff "
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